[Farmall] Sleeves for a Regular

[Justin Weber]

I have NOS IHC piston and sleeve sets available.



John Gustafson wrote:

>Son and I seriously got into the old 1928  Regular this week.
>Basically we stripped her down to the bare bones to take to the
>sandblaster. 80 years of corrosion does make things interesting,
>especially when trying to pull pins and cotters. The list of new
>fasteners to be obtained is getting longer. The old lube, some of
>which was probably put in at Chicago was approaching asphalt.  Ther is
>nothing,  so far, that the parts tractor can't cover for replacement.
>You start to wonder, did we start restoring the wrong one?????
>Meanwhile, the machine shop called up finally from the last session we
>had before Thanksgiving.  He'd finall gotten the head and block tanked
>and pulled apart
>
>Valve guides and  some valves need replacing, no surprise there. Big
>surprise, to me anyway, was the sleeves. Bores seemed OK but corrosion
>had encroached into the seal are pretty badly. Shop is concerned about
>leakage.
>
>Called Gordon Rice, he wasn't there but I was told that new sleeves
>were just not available.  Also was told by others that generally used
>ones will be no better than what I have. Still, I'm on the hunt for
>some better used ones. It was suggested that we use black silicone on
>the seal area.  I decided to try and tap this brain trust and see if
>there was any insight here to my dilemma. An option might be a custom
>sleeve house but that looks like a thousand dollar + solution and a
>major bite to the budget.
>
>John G
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